Sociologie Românească, Vol. VIII, no. 3/2010, pp. 98-107.
Filicidul maternal şi paternal în România: tendinţe şi factori de risc
Maternal and paternal filicide in Romania: risk factors
Ecaterina Balica*
*Institute of Sociology "Dimitrie Gusti", Romanian Academy of Science
Abstract: The article presents the results of an investigation conducted on a group of people definitively convicted for committing acts of murder that in the domain literature can be confined to the term filicid. In our opinion, the term filicid means "murder committed by parents over their children, regardless of the victim's age" (Jacques D. Marleau et all, 1999). The aim of our investigations was to identify - at an individual, family and community level - the occuring risk factors influencing paternal and maternal filicid, in order to provide necessary feedback for actions ment to prevent the acts of murder committed by parents over their children. The methodology used allowed us to obtain information on the family of origin in which the aggressor has evolved until the age of 18 years, on the family he developed, on the relations inside the family of origin and inside the family the murder occurred in, information about how the crime was committed, as well as data on situational factors that have competed to achieve the act of violence. Since our research interest to murder commited inside family space materialized in the form of previous studies, in the present article we have also tried to achieve a comparison between those who commit murders inside the family area and individuals who commit filicid.
Keywords: filicid, paternal filicid, maternal filicid, risk factors, murder in family space.
Cuvinte-cheie: filicid, filicid paternal, filicid maternal, factori de risc, omor în spaţiul familial.